Clean your configuration with configuration_manager

If you’re spreading constants around your environments files to configure your Rails apps based on the environment it is running on, stop immediately! Let’s say it’s not very wise… ;) There’s no point in having lots of different constants all around your code that basically all do the same thing: configure your app.

Instead, you should do [...]

Our first plugin: acts_as_fulltextable

Update (05/10/2007): we’ve moved the plugin to Google Code.

We’ve never been really happy with what was available to perform full-text searches in Rails. We tried a whole bunch of different plugins — most notably actsasferret and actsassphinx –, but none seemed to work as expected.

Ferret is great, but we couldn’t determine why it was throwing all [...]